{"id":674,"date":"2015-11-09T00:08:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T22:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=674"},"modified":"2017-01-20T22:11:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T20:11:53","slug":"slide-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/slide-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>slide show<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I watched slide shows made by participants in my course. Despite the bad reputation of PowerPoint presentations, I\u2019m confident that we&#8217;ll never return to the slideless era. What matters is the weight of the slides in the presentation as a whole. What would I myself like to watch during a speech? A good slide show has a consistent appearance, but the slide template should not be too dominant; you don&#8217;t need your logo taking up 25% of every slide. Uniform colors, font types and sizes provide a clear visual impression. In general, text should appear in grammatic, complete sentences, and it shouldn&#8217;t be arranged in multi-level lists. The slides should convey serious content lightly. Slides crammed with text aren&#8217;t simply boring; they look like speaker notes that snuck onto the screen. Slides with lovely images and brief aphorisms are boring as well, just in a different way. A presentation needs variety. A long parade of slides, all with bullet points or all with images, lulls the audience to sleep &#8212; and the cure is not to make the bullets bounce or spin. Ultimately, the crucial test of the content is its impact: does it deliver value to the listeners, or only to the speaker?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I watched slide shows made by participants in my course. Despite the bad reputation of PowerPoint presentations, I\u2019m confident that we&#8217;ll never return to the slideless era. What matters is the weight of the slides in the presentation as a whole. What would I myself like to watch during a speech? A good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11,15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-english","8":"category-wordoftheweek-en","9":"category-wordoftheweek","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}